Lotus Notes Sucks
One of my favorite sites to read is /. (Slashdot) and they recently posted a store on The Life of a Software Engineer. On of my favorite quotes from the article they linked to was about the IT Department.
In fact most employers I’ve worked for actually have rules in place to suggest that I not try to fix my own computer. There’s these organizations, some (not all) still stuck in the 70s and 80s, called “I.T. Departments” who’s official purpose is to fix computers — but who’s actual purpose is to attempt to prevent their users from doing anything dangerous (read: useful.)
This reminds me of my current companies I.T. department. Where they love to prevent anything dangerous (useful) from happening by doing there best to prevent users from doing work. No work = no danger. I’m sure the I.T. department would work great if the company was filled with users like my grandmother… but its not. One example is that they love lotus notes. Its the de facto e-mail program and they are adding this useful feature (bug) that allows single sign on. This feature now has some user creating two different passwords for the same e-mail account if they use more the one computer or version of Notes. Because every I.T. department knows that no one uses more then one computer right?
I recently found other people also think Lotus Notes Sucks (http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/index.html) with plenty of examples. Here are some of my favorites
- The login windows
- The Property Sheet (and poorly designed icons)
- Stupid Error Messages (These are terrible when its an important e-mail)
- Entering a Hyperlink (WTF is a Hotspot?)
- You’ve Got Mail! (Couldn’t you just update my inbox without making me refresh it?)
- Least Favorite Favorites
- Meeting Invitations (Invite me to a meeting on LN and I wont show up… I might even block you)
For some reason my inbox always says I have 5 unread messages. I have looked everywhere. I have searched and sorted by unread. I have gone through every option… they are no where to be found. I get nightmares sometimes about the 5 unread messages. One might be a memo about the TPS report cover sheet update.
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Dunno if this helps with the 5 unread thing, but I use Lotus Notes 6.5 and I went to the Quickpick at the bottom right hand of the screen and clicked “Scan Unread Mail”. It said there were one or more unread message that views had not been created for, should it create them now? I clicked yes and voila! - the mysterious unread message were no more.
Awesome! I scanned for unread mail and got an error message “The next unread document is not selected by any view. You can read it but not navigate to other documents.”
Thats fine lets see the document! Then “Document has been deleted”
Repeated the process for the remaining “Unread Documents” which I guess were just Message Boxes telling me that the Document has been deleted…. I hate you lotus notes.
Thanks Lauren for your help! I’ll let everyone at work know who has the same problem.
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